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China Launches Construction of Megadam Project

ENR Construction

Photo by Li Lin/China News Service/VCG July 22, 2025 China has begun construction on what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, a facility with a projected annual generation capacity of 300 billion kWh of electricity—nearly three times the production of the Three Gorges Dam, the record holder since 2006. Is this comment offensive?

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Manchester United New Stadium: £2bn 100,000-Capacity Vision to Replace Old Trafford

UK Construction Blog

Financing relies entirely on private investment rather than public funding, with the club exploring strategic partnerships to fund the £2 billion development whilst managing existing debts of over £1 billion. The club announced their official plans in March 2025, targeting occupancy by the 2030-31 football season.

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One-third of Federal Superfund Sites Are at Risk as Sea Level Rise Quickens

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July 10, 2025 Nearly one-third of 157 federal facilities designated as Superfund sites on the U.S. Many of those sites—all military facilities—are near population centers and important ecological areas. EPA oversees cleanup of federal facility sites. inches from 2006 through 2015, the report stated.

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Trends in Construction: 3 Ways Technology is Changing Commercial Construction

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The use of technology and apps for daily construction reporting, sharing photos and scheduling look-aheads has become common practice on today’s commercial construction job sites. In those days, if someone needed you while you were on a job site or at a meeting, they paged you and you ran to the nearest pay phone to return the call.

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Revit OpEd: Reference Planes and Wall Closure

Revit OpEd

These adjustments change the 3D model, not just the 2D plan-view. Note the two “wall closure” parameters (shown below) need to be “locked” so they stay positive (in the correct direction) when the host wall thickness changes. In plan you get something like this. Site Information. at 8:00 AM.

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

First and foremost is important to understand that all projects are exercises in managing change. The fact that variation is going to occur (relative to planned activities and outcomes) during the project is a given. Mature organization don’t react to change, they address change according to their programmatic process.

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Revit OpEd: Column Shading Gets Obstinate

Revit OpEd

Working with a client the last couple evenings I found a quirky condition with a column family that has a nested detail component to manage masking the way they like. Then I tried changing the column to use the Column Style settings: Slanted - Angle Driven and Slanted - End Point Driven. Site Information. Swap back.no